Ransomware groups are of late increasingly targeting not only Windows computers, but Linux devices and ESXi virtual machines. Weve already spotlighted the BlackCat gang, which distributes malware written in the cross-platform language Rust and is capable of encrypting such systems. Our experts analyzed two more show more ...
Trend Micro analyzed and warned against a Windows RCE vulnerability, identified as CVE-2022-30136, impacting the Network File System. The flaw occurs due to improper handling of NFSv4 requests which could be abused by sending malicious RPC calls to a target server. An advisory suggests that a user has to first install the fix for the vulnerability.
A new alert by the FBI is cautioning users against downloading malicious apps for investing in cryptocurrency assets. Hackers are operating under fraudulent company names to lure potential investors. To verify if the company behind such apps is genuine or not, always visit the official website.
Researchers from the New Jersey Institute of Technology warned against a unique tactic that can be used by threat actors to de-anonymize website visitors and link them to potential personal data. The hack analyzes low-key features of a target’s browser activity to find out whether they are logged into an account for services such as YouTube, Facebook, Dropbox, and Twitter.
Entertaining short-form content and striking imagery are what make companies and brands stand out online but it’s important to remain aware of your cybersecurity and data protection.
Linux kernel developers have addressed the Retbleed speculative execution bug in older Intel and AMD silicon, though the fix wasn't straightforward, so Linus Torvalds has delayed delivery of the next kernel version by a week.
Arm CCA relies on firmware to manage the hardware to enforce its security guarantees, so it is essential that the firmware is correct and secure. While many previous systems rely on firmware, none of them can guarantee that the firmware has no bugs.
“It is an intensive effort of the state and Centre in the police systems towards nabbing cyber culprits and creating awareness about the cyber helpline number 1930 to report any cyber-attacks,” Jasdeep Singh said.
A total of 53 Joker downloader apps have been identified by Zscaler and Pradeo, with the apps downloaded cumulatively over 330,000 times. These apps typically pose as SMS, photo editors, blood pressure monitor, emoji keyboards, and translation apps.
Psychologists who research obedience to authority know we are more likely to respond to requests from people higher up in our social and professional hierarchies. And fraudsters know it too.
Over 50 cases have been reported this year where Delhi-based fraudsters were caught posing as directors or chiefs of agencies and cheating senior citizens/government officers under the guise of buying gift cards and converting them to cryptocurrency.
A scammer group was found exploiting the brand of the renowned U.S. developer of GPUs, Nvidia, in a fraud giveaway campaign, promising bitcoins. For an added touch of legitimacy, the fraudsters have created a fake Nvidia support chat as well. Security experts suggest staying away from such too good to be true offers and learning to spot such scams.
Several domains were identified as indicators of compromise (IoCs) in a report published by Checkpoint including autohous-lips[.]de, autohause-meissner[.]de, autohaus-schreoter[.]info, autohaus-landharr[.]de, autohaus-buschgbr[.]de, and 30+ others.
Two client-side risks dominate the problems with data loss and data exfiltration: improperly placed trackers on websites and web applications and malicious client-side code pulled from third-party repositories like NPM.
AppViewX announced that the company has raised $20 million in a Series B funding round led by growth equity firm and existing investor, Brighton Park Capital (“Brighton Park”).
The Knauf Group has announced it has been the target of a cyberattack that has disrupted its business operations, forcing its global IT team to shut down all IT systems to isolate the incident.
A Washington, D.C.-area technology services giant purchased a boutique security services provider to strengthen its security operations strategy and support around managed services.
The Executive Yuan regularly reviews the designation of critical infrastructure to bolster the nation’s information security, as listed establishments and facilities must submit an information safety plan to the government body.
Most of these restaurants were small local establishments across the U.S. using these platforms as a cost-effective alternative to outsourcing the online ordering process.
NIST revealed the list of companies Friday, noting their response to the agency’s Federal Register notice last fall, inviting collaborators to participate in the standardization process under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement.
The U.S. Justice Department seized roughly $500,000 in ransom payments that a medical center in Kansas paid to North Korean hackers last year, along with cryptocurrency used to launder the payments, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said Tuesday.
“The Frederick Police Department is working with Information Technology to verify the validity of these postings,” the spokesperson said. “Currently, there is no evidence of intrusion into our secure network.”
Cybereason said Singapore businesses were witnessing the greatest volume of such attacks among the countries polled, with 80 percent of respondents here saying their organizations had been hit by a ransomware attack in the past 24 months.
Fortinet captured a phishing email as part of a phishing campaign spreading a new variant of QakBot. Also known as QBot, QakBot is an information stealer and banking Trojan that has been captured and analyzed by security researchers since 2007.
A large-scale campaign was found targeting Elastix VoIP telephony servers with over 500,000 malware samples, over a period of three months. The campaign’s goal was to plant a PHP web shell to run arbitrary commands on infected communications servers. The operation systematically exploited SIP servers from various show more ...
Discovered by Kaspersky security researchers via a dark web ransomware forum ad, Luna (Russian for moon) is very simple ransomware still under development and with limited capabilities based on the available command line options.
Google on Tuesday officially announced support for DNS-over-HTTP/3 (DoH3) for Android devices as part of a Google Play system update designed to keep DNS queries private.
Ukrainian officials shared the information with the U.S. government, Cyber Command said, and then the agency uploaded various technical details to VirusTotal, Pastebin and GitHub. The agency did not attribute the malware.
The Ransomware Business Impact Analysis tool has been available since May at no cost and is the result of a collaboration with Foresight Resilience Strategies, a consulting group.
The top countries with the most users include Chile, Australia, Mexico, Ukraine, Russia, Morocco, Venezuela, Brazil, Poland, Italy, Indonesia, Uzbekistan, and South Africa.
While zero-knowledge proofs could indeed improve privacy and scalability for some of the most popular blockchains, they are far from being the only cryptographic method that could accelerate progress in web3.
When asked for comment, Bajji – the company that owns Feelyou – directed The Record to a statement released on Tuesday, disclosing that the vulnerability in the platform was patched on Saturday, July 16.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5528-1 - It was discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain malformed font files. If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted font file, a remote attacker could cause FreeType to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5525-1 - It was discovered that Apache XML Security for Java incorrectly passed a configuration property when creating specific key elements. This allows an attacker to abuse an XPath Transform to extract sensitive information.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5527-1 - It was discovered that Checkmk incorrectly handled authentication. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a race condition leading to information disclosure. It was discovered that Checkmk incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could use these cross-site scripting show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5526-1 - Aapo Oksman discovered that PyJWT incorrectly handled signatures constructed from SSH public keys. A remote attacker could use this to forge a JWT signature.
Emporium eCommerce Online Shopping CMS version 1.2 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
The Russian state-sponsored hacking collective known as APT29 has been attributed to a new phishing campaign that takes advantage of legitimate cloud services like Google Drive and Dropbox to deliver malicious payloads on compromised systems. "These campaigns are believed to have targeted several Western diplomatic missions between May and June 2022," Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said in a Tuesday
Russian threat actors capitalized on the ongoing conflict against Ukraine to distribute Android malware camouflaged as an app for pro-Ukrainian hacktivists to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Russian sites. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) attributed the malware to Turla, an advanced persistent threat also known as Krypton, Venomous Bear, Waterbug, and Uroburos, and
Kaspersky security researchers have disclosed details of a brand-new ransomware family written in Rust, making it the third strain after BlackCat and Hive to use the programming language. Luna, as it's called, is "fairly simple" and can run on Windows, Linux, and ESXi systems, with the malware banking on a combination of Curve25519 and AES for encryption. "Both the Linux and ESXi
The 8220 cryptomining group has expanded in size to encompass as many as 30,000 infected hosts, up from 2,000 hosts globally in mid-2021. "8220 Gang is one of the many low-skill crimeware gangs we continually observe infecting cloud hosts and operating a botnet and cryptocurrency miners through known vulnerabilities and remote access brute forcing infection vectors," Tom Hegel of SentinelOne
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning of a handful of unpatched security vulnerabilities in MiCODUS MV720 Global Positioning System (GPS) trackers outfitted in over 1.5 million vehicles that could lead to remote disruption of critical operations. "Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow a remote actor to exploit access and gain control of
The Great Resignation – or the Great Reshuffle as some are calling it – and the growing skills gap have been dominating headlines lately. But these issues aren't new to the cybersecurity industry. While many are just now hearing about employee burnout, security teams have faced reality and serious consequences of burnout for years. One of the biggest culprits? Alert overload. The average
Google on Tuesday officially announced support for DNS-over-HTTP/3 (DoH3) for Android devices as part of a Google Play system update designed to keep DNS queries private. To that end, Android smartphones running Android 11 and higher are expected to use DoH3 instead of DNS-over-TLS (DoT), which was incorporated into the mobile operating system with Android 9.0. DoH3 is also an alternative to
Three million Android users may have lost money and had their devices infected by spyware, after the discovery that the official Google Play store has been distributing apps infected by a new family of malware. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Bexplus gave its users only 24 hours to withdraw their funds. Can you imagine a traditional financial institution treating its customers in such a slipshod fashion?
An app which purported to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the internet infrastructure of Russia, was in reality secretly installing malware on to the devices of pro-Ukrainian activists. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
